The Mongolian capital is paying millions to naturally freeze extra ice in the winter that can help cool the city in the summer. Will this be a geoengineering project that actually gets off the ground?READ»
First, though, the British government is going to put a normal-sized balloon in the sky to see if spraying water to refract the sun's light can really prevent climate change.READ»
A new study shows how using iron to fertilize marine plants fundamentally alters seafloor ecosystems. But that might be worth it to slow climate change.READ»
So much for our vision of cloud-spraying ships scattered in oceans around the globe. Future research into geoengineering, or the deliberate manipulation of the Earth's climate, has been banned by the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.READ»
Geoengineering, or deliberate manipulation of the Earth's climate, is a controversial topic--climate-altering schemes could slow global temperatures from rising, but nobody really knows what effects they will have in the long-run. Now we may never get to find out.READ»
Geoengineering--deliberate manipulation of the Earth's climate--has gained traction in recent years as a supplement to more traditional climate change reduction schemes. The concepts advanced in the movement range from the practical ...READ»
We've seen more than our fair share of geoengineering schemes concocted to halt climate change in the past year, including algae-lined buildings, forests of synthetic trees, and ships that spray climate-altering clouds into the sky. ...READ»
We're all for alleviating the nasty stench of landfills, but this is just not the way to do it. The UK Guardian reports that Beijing is installing 100 high-pressure deodorant guns at the overflowing Asuwei dump site in the city.The ...READ»
Scientists yesterday told the Copenhagen Climate Change summit that without drastic cuts in pollution by 2020, at a cost of £150/year per person on the planet, the chances of limiting global temperature rises to the widely debated ...READ»
Last week, we reported on a study from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers that suggested creating forests of synthetic trees and algae-lined buildings to absorb CO2 and delay climate change. And earlier this month, we wrote about a ...READ»
As climate change accelerates, scientists keep coming up with increasingly fanciful schemes to fight it. Earlier this month we took a look at a plan to deploy ships that spray climate change-battling clouds, and now comes word from a ...READ»
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
That is to say, starting the mid-19th century, human activity has changed global ecosystem conditions in ways that fall outside the normal variations visible in geological ...READ»
Geo-engineering—the idea that we can fix our carbon problem with a massively-scaled techno-intervention—might be amazing. But the projects—from seeding the ocean with iron to creating highly reflective artificial ...READ»
British researchers are proposing an intriguing idea: That by planting the right kinds of wheat, we can affect how much light is being reflected back into space and thereby counteract global warming. The effect might cool swathes of ...READ»
